Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.
Sturgis wants an insane asylum.

Sturgis wants an insane asylum.
Spearnsh has a progressive euchre craze.
Plerre's tobogsan slide lengthens out 500
feet.
There arc 100 members in the Roscoe Liter
airy society.
Sioux Falls has q slice OF the Oriental Order
Of Humility.
Gen. Law Wallace lectursd at Yankton
January 81.
Aberdeen now claims thirty eight regular
daily trains.
Cedar Rapids has $50 scholars attending
the public schools.
1t took one month to get = telegram from
Pierre to Deadwood.
Blunt is entirely out OF potatoes. There lie
also a dearth Of hay.
Moody county averages two head Of cattle
for each inhabitant.
Sioux Falls is figuring on the possibilities
Of a new paper mill.
There Is talk OF reviving the Mercer County
immigration society.
A st. Paul grocery firm has made Aberdeen
their distributing point.
Michael Cory was found frozen to death
near Deadwood Tuesday.
st. Lawrence Is short oncoabutl' is having
a red hot time over religion.
Clay county has ~ffty-two school houses and
z, 1913 persons OF school age.
The Rapid City Gun club threatens to pros
ecute violators OF the game law.
An incendiary got away with a SIC, 900 saw
mill at Spearfsh the other day.
The city council OF Bismarck has been
called on to fix the hack rates OF that city.
The ice houses Ct Mitchell are being sup
piled from the Missouri river at Chamberlain
The thermometer at Deadwood at 2 o'clock
In the afternoon Of the 18th inst. recorded Al
degrees below.
All Souls Unitarian church Of Sioux Falls
has selected Miss c. j. Bartlett, Of Minneapo-
lis as pastor.
1t Ia reported that Geo. s. Nave of Won
socket, Will be appointed receiver OF the land
Office OF Mitchell.
The Black Hills nickel mine, to be opened
in the spring, is considered one OF the great
est bonanzas OF the Hills.
1t is estimated that over 81, 900, 900 will be
asked Of the Dakota legislature this winter
for the various territorial Institutions,
Ice taken from the river at Yankton Is said
to be OF Il better quality than for seventeen
years, being over two feet In thickness.
Waight n. Leyey, sheriff of Sanborn county,
has been appointed a deputy United States
marshal for Dakota by Marshal Maratta.
The Loup City Roller Mill company has
filed articles of incorporation in the office of
the secretary Of state. The capital stock is
8 $4,000.
Valuable tin property was disposed OF at
Rapid City on the 18th inst, the claim being
300 by 800 feet in size, and the amount paid
SIS, 900.
It Is said that the members OF the territor-
entered the house OF representatives last week
the clock stopped.
The bill TO restore some SIS, 625 to the terri
tory for stores charged to 1t by the govern
ment in 1857, ia on the house calendar for
early consideration.
The Lawrence county grand jury has re-
turned a true bill against p. II. Truedell for
the cmurde Of Sandy Connolly some two
months ago.
A new paper ut New lockwood will be one
OF the surprises OF the near future. 1t will
be strongly Republican in politics, and will
probably be named the North Dakota Her.
aid.
W.. G. Goodlng's grain store house, near
the Burlington depot at WATERFOWL, was com.
pletely destroyed by fire on the 14th inst,
Only 500 bushels OF wheat and flax were de.
stroyed.
A petition has been circulated by Hyde
county and numerously signed by men OF all
parties, petitioning the legislature to enact q
law leaving the question OF prohibition to the
people of the territory.
Mayor Rice OF Mandan, is seeking to secure
through Delegate Clifford, a slight amend.
ment to the laws of congress, so rs not to
restrict municipal indebtedness, where abso.
Lutte improvements are necessary, such as
water works and sewerage systems.
The William II. Seward post, G.. A. r., OF
jamestown, has appointed a committee to
begin preparations for the annual encamp-
ment OF the grand army men OF the terri
tory, which will be held in that town In
March.
The department OF Dakota OF the Grand
Army Of the Republic is preparing a roster of
ali the soldiers in the territory, and has called
upon all post commanders to furnish complete
lists. This viii greatly facilitate the work of
the government In obtaining evidence In pen
sion claims.
The residence and contents OF j. G. Jones,
five miles from Crook, we're destroyed by fro
on the 18th inst. The family were left with
out a place Of shelter, a change OF clothing or
a mouthful Of food. The loss by fire 10 farm
buildings in that locality has been unusually
heavy this winter.
A fire caused by a stove totally destroyed
two Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul boarding
cars at Roscoe early Thursday morning. The
boarding boss, Frank Leyland, .upposing his
wife and children still in the car, tried TO res
cue them and was burned to death. His wife
and children were safe. The remains leave
tonight for his for mer nome At Stanford.
A young man OF Carbonate, with practical
joking proclivitics, was corresponding with
An unknown Young lady In the east for s'luu-